Banff Mountain Film Festival | Denver | March 2-4

Ignite your passion for adventure, action and travel! The Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour will exhilarate you with amazing big-screen stories when it comes to the Paramount Theater in March 2017. Tickets go on sale December 16th! Learn more >

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2017 Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour

Paramount Theatre
Denver, CO
7pm Thursday, Friday, Saturday
March 2-4

***Tickets on sale beginning Friday, Dec. 16***

Ignite your passion for adventure, action and travel! The Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour will exhilarate you with amazing big-screen stories when it comes to the Paramount Theater in March 2017. Journey to exotic locations, paddle the wildest waters, climb the highest peaks and be taken away to the most captivating places on earth.

Backcountry Film Festival 2017

Don't miss the Backcountry Film Festival, with unique films aimed to inspire winter adventurers to seek the snow less traveled. Produced by the Boise-based nonprofit, Winter Wildlands Alliance, the Backcountry Film Festival is renowned for its mix of professional and grassroots films – from well-known filmmakers who search backcountry corners across the globe to submit their best work to first-timers who take a video camera out on their weekend excursions.

Peak Happy Hour Series -
Fall 2016

Cannonball Creek Brewing Co.
Golden, CO
Wednesday, Dec. 14

Join us on the second Wednesday of every month for our Peak of the Week happy hour series! Wednesdays are the perfect time to get together with fellow mountain enthusiasts over a pint – after all, you've finally recovered enough from the previous weekend’s adventures to start making plans for the next, right? Celebrate all things outdoors with an evening of fun, tasty beer, socializing and networking. $1 from every beer sold between 5pm & 9pm will be donated back to CMC!

CMC Blog

Kautz Potatoes Attempt Mt. Rainier

By Spud, an actual potato

After months of lectures, z-haul practices, carrying excessive quantities of water to the tops of various terrain features and climbing snowy things in the dark, our team was finally poised to climb the Kautz Glacier route on Mt. Rainier.

CMC Press Book of the Month

Colorado 14er Disasters, Second Edition

by Mark Scott-Nash

Hiking to the summits Colorado’s many 14,000-foot peaks is an incredibly popular activity, enjoyed by thousands of people every year. But the potential of a serious accident casts a dark shadow on what is usually a great experience.

Colorado 14er Disasters, Second Edition explores the disturbingly easy ways that hikers become stranded, severely injured, or killed on the state’s high alpine peaks. When those accidents happen, the victim is far from help and in an environment where rescue is difficult at best.

Even the most experienced mountaineers are not immune to catastrophe. Seemingly small errors can compound into serious consequences. Sometimes bad luck is a factor yet even in those cases alternative strategies may change the outcome.

Featured Adventure Travel Trip

This will be a new variation on previous CMC trips to Kilimanjaro. We will warm up and acclimatize with a 4-day climb of Mt. Meru, 14,968’. Mt. Meru is just West of Kilimanjaro, near Arusha, Tanzania, and will give us great views of Kilimanjaro. Then for the main event, we will climb Kilimanjaro (19,340’), during a 6-day climb on the Rongai Route on the North side of the mountain. CMC has only done one trip ever to Mt. Meru back in 1998 and has never done the Rongai Route on Kilimanjaro. So people who have done the Machame Route on previous CMC trips may be interested in this trip to do a different route on this great mountain as well as the climb of Mt. Meru. Participants are free to arrange their own safari before or after this trip. Leader can provide relevant information.